The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Sunday morning music

We've heard the music of Silly Wizard several times in these pages. I was reminded of it again by an inquiry about the late Andy M. Stewart, lead singer for the band, who sadly died in 2015. Since there have been few Celtic music groups as successful as Silly Wizard, or composers and singers as talented as Andy Stewart, I couldn't think of a single reason not to play some of their songs again.

We'll start with one of Andy's own compositions, "The Queen of Argyll".

Here's a more meditative, slow-moving, melancholy song; "The Valley of Strathmore".

4 comments:

I saw Silly Wizard perform at the Carpenter's Union hall in Anchorage Alaska in the 80's. During a break, I went up to Johnny Cunningham and said"You're Johnny Cunningham and so am I." We had a good laugh. What great music!

My favorite Silly Wizard tune is "Miss Catherine Brosnan," written by Phil Cunningham. It's very haunting. The first time I heard it, I had to write it out as sheet music and then learned to play it on piano.

I caught their farewell tour captured on the album "Golden, Golden." and "Live in America"1985Ireland's Four Provinces (DC)."Please join us in one last song."And we all sang Golden, Golden.Excuse me but I must go get a hankie and a wee dram.